Triad Podcast Network - Bookmarks.It's our first podcast with Bookmarks bookstore in downtown Winston-Salem! Jamie and Beth share several ideas to get you ready for the upcoming Festival of Books and Authors from September 6th through the 9th. Learn several ways to plan out your weekend and how to make it much easier with their new festival mobile app. Click here to listen.

Festival Weekend Events & Ticketed Events

Reading & Booksigning with New York Times Bestselling Children's Author Carole Boston Weatherford Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem Thursday, September 6 at 5 p.m.

A leading poet and biographer writing for young people today, Carole Boston Weatherford is the award-winning author of more than 50 books. The fun begins with a booksigning, music, and hands-on activities. Weatherford will read and discuss Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression in preparation for Reynolda’s fall exhibit Dorothea Lange’s America, which will open Friday, September 14 and run through Sunday, December 30, 2018. All ages welcome! Presented with support from Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

A Fiction Reading and Q&A with Award-Winning Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras Casual Skirt Boutique CAbi Skirt Skirt Casual Boutique Casual CAbi Boutique CAbiKushner International Marketplace Ballroom in Cottrell Hall, High Point University, One University Parkway, High Point Thursday, September 6 at 7 p.m.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is an award-winning author who was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her mesmerizing debut Fruit of the Drunken Tree is set in Colombia at the height of Pablo Escobar’s violent reign. Inspired by the author’s own life, this novel is written in the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez. This presentation in the year-round Phoenix Reading Series will be followed by a booksigning. Presented with support from High Point University’s Department of English

Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel, What We Lose, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. Clemmons teaches writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles and was a 2017 National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree. In 2012, when she moved home to care for her mother who was dying of cancer, she began keeping a diary of the experience. Later, the diary helped her structure What We Lose, which asks complicated questions about belonging, grief, and identity. What We Lose was chosen as a Freshman Read for students entering Salem College. Book sales will be provided by Bookmarks with a booksigning following the program. Presented with support from Salem CollegeCato Leisure Leisure Pants winter Cato winter Dress Pants Dress winter Cato Dress Leisure EwZx11q8XC

The author of Destination Simple: Everyday Rituals for a Slower Life and Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World, Brooke McAlary co-hosts The Slow Home podcast and runs a blog with her husband called “The Art of Simple,” which focuses on savoring the little things in life. Presented with support from Triad Moms on Main. \

Dav Pilkey has written and illustrated numerous popular, award-winning books for children, including the wildly popular Captain Underpants book series. Pilkey’s bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel series Dog Man, released in Fall 2016, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and has more than 10 million copies in print to date. Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas is the newest installment in the series, published by Scholastic on August 28, 2018.

As a child, Pilkey was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, which was frequently mistaken for bad behavior in class. Pilkey struggled in school and was often forced to sit in the school hallway, which is where he created both his Captain Underpants and Dog Man characters. Pilkey’s books are a magnet for reluctant readers and their humor is contagious for adults as well.

Tickets Required: Sold Out Event

Please note: any signed books left from this event will be on sale in the Bookstore Tent at Saturday's Book Festival, then at Bookmarks starting Wednesday, September 12. We will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Summer Reading Drop Off & Book Pick Up 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | Children’s Area near Winston Square Park Participants in our 2018 Summer Reading program can turn in their completed passports here to receive a free book and to be entered into a contest for four $50 Bookmarks gift cards.

Demonstration Booth: Book related projects and art will be demonstrated and on display. Get inspired!10 a.m.–5 p.m. | Spruce Street Parking Lot near Hanesbrands Theatre

This is an interactive event for aspiring writers to get immediate feedback on their work from editors and agents. All anonymous—all live! Want to have your work read? Bring a hard copy of up to 300 words of prose from a single work, typed, double-spaced (with no name) to the Info Booth by 9:30 a.m. for the 10 a.m. program or by 3:30 p.m. for the 4 p.m. program. Submissions chosen at random. Not all guaranteed to be read due to time limits.

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Spoken Word: Share your poems or prose pieces. 5 minute limit per person; events will be timed and strict on time limits! 12:30–1:30 p.m. First Draft: Come share the first draft of whatever you’re working on. Boutique CAbi Casual Skirt CAbi Casual Skirt Skirt Casual CAbi Boutique Boutique 5 minute limit per person; events will be timed and strict on time limits! 2:45–3:45 p.m. Kids Read: Those up to 14 years of age are invited to share their work. Hear everything from slam poetry to short fiction to fairytales from kids, teens, and adults. Annabel Martin will read from 2:45-2:55 p.m. and Gabe Deibler will read from 3:32 - 3:42 p.m. Please sign up for other five-minute time slots beginning at 10 a.m. at the Info Booth. Note our events are family friendly; please use appropriate language.

Home is a complex place. How do we find the courage to get there in our writing? And what do we do once we get there? You’ll spend time writing and sharing drafts so that you will leave with beginnings and middles, whether for a short or long piece.

12–12:30 p.m. Author Audrey Penn with Chester Raccoon and his stories 12:45–1:15 p.m. Wild Thing and a reading of Where the Wild Things Are 3–3:30 p.m. Clifford the Big Red Dog and a reading of Clifford stories

Authoring Action youth (ages 13–17) experience the power of the arts and creative writing as a transformational life process. This literary and performance arts organization creates an opportunity for youth to discover their authentic voices through artistic development.

Graphic Novel Workshop for Kids with Jeffrey Brown - SOLD OUT 2:30–3:30 p.m. | Sawtooth School for Visual ArtSold out ticketed event.

Join Jeffrey Brown for a fun session of creating! Learn to draw Scimitar tooth cats and stone age kids while making cave comics. Ages 8–12.

The regular Bookmarks series continues with award-winning authors Ladee Hubbard, David Joy, and Mark Powell! Join them for Foothills beer and a discussion about their books. Free beer tastings by Foothills Brewery begins at 4 p.m. Free beer given to anyone who purchases a copy of the authors’ books from Bookmarks (21+). Just show your receipt!

Not ready for the 2018 Festival to be over? Join us for brunch and a chance to meet and hear from more than 15 of the 2018 Festival authors. Come early at 10:30 to buy signed Festival books and mingle with authors before Bookmarks Bookstore opens to the public. Over brunch, hear each author share from their work in our Parapalooza. This is your chance to hear from even more Festival authors—and find new favorites! Tickets Required: $35 each or $300 for a table of 10Click here to purchase tickets: York Shorts Design 7th New Company Studio Leisure winter amp; Avenue wFOcTa

Celebrate this special holiday for all grandparents and their families with children’s book author and illustrator, Jennifer Thermes, who will read her new book, Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail, in this special storytime for all ages. Presented with support from Mast General Store